Clinical responses in a phase II study using adoptive transfer of short-term cultured tumor infiltration lymphocytes in metastatic melanoma patients

MJ Besser, R Shapira-Frommer, AJ Treves… - Clinical cancer …, 2010 - AACR
Purpose: Adoptive cell therapy with autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) has shown
promising results in metastatic melanoma patients. Although objective response rates of …

Identification of bacteria-derived HLA-bound peptides in melanoma

…, TD Lawley, DJ Adams, MP Levesque, MJ Besser… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A variety of species of bacteria are known to colonize human tumours 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
, 9 , 10 – 11 , proliferate within them and modulate immune function, which ultimately affects …

Adoptive transfer of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in patients with metastatic melanoma: intent-to-treat analysis and efficacy after failure to prior immunotherapies

MJ Besser, R Shapira-Frommer, O Itzhaki… - Clinical Cancer …, 2013 - AACR
Purpose: Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) using autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL)
was reported to yield objective responses in about 50% of metastatic patients with melanoma. …

Early and late hematologic toxicity following CD19 CAR-T cells

…, A Avigdor, B Bielorai, A Meir, MJ Besser… - Bone marrow …, 2019 - nature.com
Autologous T cells transduced with CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptors have recently
been approved by several regulatory agencies for the treatment of relapsed and refractory …

Dopamine by itself activates either D2, D3 or D1/D5 dopaminergic receptors in normal human T-cells and triggers the selective secretion of either IL-10, TNFα or both

MJ Besser, Y Ganor, M Levite - Journal of neuroimmunology, 2005 - Elsevier
The neurotransmitter dopamine on its own increased significantly TNFα and IL-10 secretion
by resting normal-human T-cells, and induced ∼5-fold elevation of the corresponding …

[HTML][HTML] Gamma-delta CAR-T cells show CAR-directed and independent activity against leukemia

…, J Schachter, I Bank, E Jacoby, MJ Besser - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Autologous T cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) against the
CD19 antigen are in the frontline of contemporary hemato-oncology therapies, leading to high …

[PDF][PDF] Proteomics of melanoma response to immunotherapy reveals mitochondrial dependence

…, GD Barnabas, S Ashkenazi, MJ Besser… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, yet most patients do not respond. Here,
we investigated mechanisms of response by profiling the proteome of clinical samples from …

Establishment and large-scale expansion of minimally cultured “young” tumor infiltrating lymphocytes for adoptive transfer therapy

…, J Schachter, MJ Besser - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Treatment of metastatic melanoma patients with adoptively transferred tumor
infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) has developed into an effective therapy. Various studies reported …

Human T cells express a functional ionotropic glutamate receptor GluR3, and glutamate by itself triggers integrin-mediated adhesion to laminin and fibronectin and …

Y Ganor, M Besser, N Ben-Zakay, T Unger… - The Journal of …, 2003 - journals.aai.org
T cells may encounter glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the nervous system,
when patrolling the brain and in glutamate-rich peripheral organs. Moreover, glutamate …

TIL therapy broadens the tumor-reactive CD8+ T cell compartment in melanoma patients

…, P thor Straten, YF Li, PF Robbins, MJ Besser… - …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
There is strong evidence that both adoptive T cell transfer and T cell checkpoint blockade
can lead to regression of human melanoma. However, little data are available on the effect of …